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Ravi Narayan
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 16,871 PointsWhy did you use badges?
Shouldn't it be badgeCount since that' what we named the perimeter in the printMessage function?
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Spencer Renfro
Courses Plus Student 11,133 PointsThe parameter naming convention is used just to describe what variable is being used in that function, it could be named anything in the printMessage function. However, when calling the printMessage function that needs to be a reference to a variable.